Virtual Architect - Gerben's Blog on Virtualization » virtualization

DELL announces integration of acquisitions in vStart offering

Gerben — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:19:36 +0000

Yesterday at DELLWorld, Brett Roscoe, executive director of data management solutions at Dell announced the integration of the newly acquired products in the vStart offering. This explicitly means that Dell Force 10 networking and Dell Compellent storage will be available as part of the vStart offering in 2012.

vStart [...]

Video and Photos of VMware Forum 2011 in Den Bosch (NL)

Gerben — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:17:56 +0000

Today I visited VMware Forum 2011 in Den Bosch (NL). I calculated a long trip but fortunately there were no traffic jams along the route. I even got there before the initial ETA of the TomTom of my car. After a croissant and a black coffee it was time for the keynote.

Jeremy van [...]

DELL to acquire Compellent

Gerben — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:47:38 +0000

Today (13 dec 2010) DELL and Compellent announced they have come into a definitive agreement for DELL to acquire Compellent.

Compellent is a storage provider, known for providing (highly) automated and tiered storage to manage data in a flexible way. “Fluid data” is what Compellent calls it.

Compellent is a [...]

Windows Desktop Sandboxing: iCore

Gerben — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:34:00 +0000

iCore Software delivers free sandboxing software which uses OS-level virtualization on your (home) PC. Using this software you can easily turn your home PC into three different “partitions” for different purposes see example in picture:

The software offer’s virtual accounts and thus provides seperate security contexts to those accounts.

more about [...]

VMworld Europe 2009 here I come

Gerben — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:23:32 +0000

Just ten minutes to go before I leave to the trainstation. Then a train journey of three hours untill I arrive at Schiphol, Amsterdam Airport to take the flight at 20:35 to Nice. Hopefully I will arrive around 23:30 in Cannes.

Unfortunately I am not feeling very well, some paracetamol keeps me running…